violence is necessary to achieve their political means. so for me, there is no other story and the year that has so many big stories can come close to the insurrection. tara setmire, for you, biggest story of 2021. i agree with renee. we have never seen anything like this in our country s history and we literally saw within minutes the peaceful transition of power, the 250 reign of our democracy on the brink. if it wasn t for the heroic efforts of officer goodman, we have no idea how much more tragic that day could have been as far as, you know, with him directing the crowd in a different direction, protecting the vice president, mitt romney. what we saw that day, how our police officers there were overrun, how, you know, no one a woman lost her life trying to break into the speaker s lobby. what we saw that day was so
opening christmas gifts yesterday, the u.s. surpassed 52 million covid-19 cases. the national seven-day average rose to more than 189,000 cases this past week. the highest average in nearly a year. several hundred flights have been canceled today after nearly a thousand were canceled yesterday due to the rapid spread of omicron among flight crews. the northern part of the u.s. is dealing with severe winter storms. even flash flooding in parts of the country. desmond tutu has died. he gained prominence through his work as a human rights campaigner. he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1984 for his tireless fight against apartheid in south africa. archbishop tutu was 90 years old. that s a quick look at today s headlines. back to a special holiday edition of the the sunday show with jonathan capehart right after a quick break. how with jonathan capehart right after a quick break.
kathryn, and aunt gloria, final thoughts. i can t go that fast. jonathan and gloria, tune in to the podcast seen on radio, season 5, episode 11, there is a brilliant guy with a whole new way of living together. start your day with a poem to offset the move. search your family, search yourselves, search your neighbors for other individuals in our country who are young and ready to step up and be the next benjamin franklin and remind every one of us, we hold these truths to be self-evident. your morality, your conscious, your soul, to be self-evident. pay attention to what you see and what you feel. i m paying attention to the clock. aunt gloria, you ve got the last
son got shot. my son got shot three times out in the street by somebody just practicing how to put his son and handle himself out in these streets. my son was used as target practice so i ll never forget that, but a lot of people forget, oh, it s just those people. until it hits your home, your house, you don t know. i m just saying that all of us need to get involved. if we don t get involved, we get exactly what we vote or don t vote for. if you truly know that we all deserve better, then we must all get in this fight and that is to put our country on the right
even on the state level, renee mentioned this, it didn t end there, because we see what is happening now at the state and local levels. what the republicans are doing is they re laying the predicate for people to not believe in the integrity of our elections, so that when the next time this comes around, then what happens? so that is the biggest story is not only what happened that day, but also the way in which a major party in this country decided to embrace the authoritarian and ill liberalism of what brought that to the forefront instead of walking away from it. that s such a danger to our democracy moving forward. john, for you, is it january 6th? yeah. i was there. and i was in the capitol that day and, i mean, i agree with everything my colleagues said, and i will say a couple of things, one, i was i was in the rotunda, the big round part of the capitol, when i was the only reporter there at one point